Sri Lanka's Sports Minister dismissed, this action was taken during the World Cup

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has dismissed Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe amid the ongoing controversy in the Sri Lanka Cricket Board. Ranasinghe had demanded the dismissal of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) amid the World Cup and the establishment of an interim committee under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga. Ranasinghe has not only been dismissed from the post of Sports Minister but he has also been removed from the remaining posts of Minister of Youth Affairs and Minister of Irrigation.

Ranasinghe regularly accused the SLC of mismanagement and corruption. A day later, the Sri Lankan courts removed the interim committee he had appointed, which included the sons of two politicians with no prior experience of running a cricket team. The leadership of the group was handed over to Arjuna Ranatunga.

Talking about the appointment of an interim committee to oversee the Sri Lankan cricket administration, Ranasinghe asked whether this was his reward for drawing attention to corruption in cricket. He said I took action on the basis of the audit report.

The SLC had requested the "higher levels" of the Sri Lankan government to ensure that politics would not be allowed to re-enter the country's cricket administration. It is believed that SLC requested the ICC suspension in an attempt to put pressure on the Sports Minister, who temporarily fired the cricket board.